Most importantly, UNMEER’s integrated approach is a case study in the UN’s potential to work together toward greater integration and to deliver across its institutional divisions, or silos.
Author: Adam Lupel
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Norm-setting institutions such as the UN gain legitimacy when those who violate those norms are held accountable. Promotion of a more robust implementation of UN norms and policies can help to rebuild trust in the system.
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Too many states and peoples have responded to problems by unilaterally using force or by turning inward, building barriers instead of bridges, and stifling dissent, under the guise of fighting external threats.
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The uncovering of La Línea has shaken Guatemalan society. No one imagined that CICIG and the Public Prosecutor’s Office would dare to unravel such an entrenched criminal network.
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Nearly a decade after its inception at the World Summit, the Responsibility to Protect principle has won the battle of ideas, but there is still much to be done.
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Colombian Senator-elect Claudia López spoke with IPI’s Adam Lupel about the recent elections and the need for a peace process that is inclusive of both the FARC and the far right.
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In this interview, Adama Dieng said that too often, strategic interests of UN member states are placed above human lives.
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Why hasn’t the principle adopted by the United Nations in 2005 to prevent genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing—known as the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP)—helped to stop the war crimes in Syria?
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While its membership includes many authoritarian states, the commitment to advancing democracy is at the very heart of the UN mission and all that it stands for.
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Robert Pape thinks the Genocide Convention and R2P have failed, but Gareth Evans and Ramesh Thakur disagree.
